By Anne Brodie A brilliantly subversive take on Bram Stoker’s horror vampire classic and crowd pleaser Dracula, Nosferatu will scare the bejaysus out of you. Master of eerie Robert Eggers has taken the tale to new heights of eroticism, despair and terror while exploring the reality of a …
Marilyn and Sidney, Canada’s Oscar Entry Lead This Week’s Screen Pix.
By Anne Brodie The much anticipated Netflix film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional take on Norma Jean Baker / Marilyn Monroe debuts Sept. 28. Oates' novel is shocking, lurid, and sex-obsessed, as is Andrew Dominik's nearly three-hour opus. It posits that Norma Jean was victimized from …
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It’s a Whiplash Long Weekend Onscreen, Naughty Ex-Pats, Social Climbing, a Fearsome Princess, and a Brill Nature Doc.
By Anne Brodie Sir David Attenborough's Profiles Plant Life on BBC Earth' new series The Green Planet, one of the best produced and most breathtaking nature docs I've seen starts with this statement “Every mouthful of food that we eat, every lungful of air that we breathe, depends on plants”. …
Italy Comes to Vivid Life, Odd Couples, Cake, Kids and Juneteenth.
By Anne Brodie Missing travel? Can't get away fast enough? You're almost there enjoying the glorious sights, sounds and flavours of the Italian coastline in Pixar Disney+' Luca. Besides pasta and gelato you can almost taste, Italian pop songs and that trademark Italian lust for life are all over …
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